Monday, 29 June 2009

Take your every day London bus...

In 2005, Muttley had approached a certain TV channel with his idea to pimp a new ride, the Leyland Olympian bus he’d just acquired, and to take it on a grand European tour, to Italy, and that years Isle of MTV Festival. Sadly, the European trip fell foul of the events of 7/7, and the bus, now replete with its hot tub and PA, as well as no small number of fluorescent decals, came to operate only as a stag, hen and prom party travel option, all the while taking up time and costing money.

Mr & Mrs Bus, though, had other ideas.
Having brought the Crazy Baldhead on board as a co-owner, plans were put in place to run the bus as a mobile members club, taking the mountain to the Mohammeds that found themselves in the country’s festival fields, and providing a VIP experience to those that deserved it.
Playing to their alleged skills, Mr Bus was to look after the production side of things, Baldhead, the bar, and Mrs Bus the design...

The top having already been removed, and the decals peeled away, the upstairs was resprayed, and the loungers given a… ‘bubble’ treatment. Downstairs, the 8ft bed was covered in genuine cow hide, silver Chesterfields were made by our good friend Robbie, the plasma TVs and PA were rewired, and the windows removed to reveal a steel bar and wet-weather DJ booth. Boo, Jez, Squidge and The Tutu spent sunny days painting the picket fence, and the newly appointed Master Bus worked on making sure we were mobile.
And on 29th June 2009, the world’s first fully mobile VIP bar, the Bubblebus, was finally born.

Hop on board, the water's lovely .....

As if the open air top deck, the cow hide triple bed, two silver Chesterfield sofas, and one unique Bubblebench, and (of course) the on-board four person hot tub wasn't enough four wheeled fun...

We've the Bubblebar, with on tap bubbles (of course!), cocktails, and more, coming complete with a 100 m sq private Garden, a roster of the finest DJs, late opening, witty banter and endless hospitality.

All you have to do is conduct yourself in a manner becoming...

Available for private hire, the bus works equally well as

- a Backstage Bar, withconductors concocting any cocktail you can cope with,

- an Alternative Stage,with DJs or a5 piece band playing to groupies in the hot tub and the bar flies below,

- a Luxury Camper ‘Van’, complete with a triple bed, and it’s own loo, or